Wedding Ideas!!

[Moesha]

If you do a slide show, you could put the pictures on CDs that you could give as party favors.

[Miranda_Rae]

If you do a slide show, you could put the pictures on CDs that you could give as party favors.

OHHHHHH!!!!! I never thought of that!!! That is VERY cool! I'll have to mention it to Michael

[Husky_mom]

the leg lace.. it´s the elastic band the groom takes from the bride.. under the dress and tosses it.. supposedly the guy who gets it is supposedly next to marry.. just as the brides flowers and girls int he party..

in my country we don´t do favors.. unless it´s a kid party.. then it´s candy..

at weddings.. people usually take the center pieces/ flowers with vase home..

you can decor tables with beads.. like little stones used to decor

Karens idea of the hearts/m&m´s in lil pouches sounds great

[Miranda_Rae]

Oh ya that leg thing! Ya we arent doing that either. I thought it was a little disturbing and weird. Cuz apparently the men bet on it and stuff like that, and it would make me feel all uncomfortable. hehe My mom did that, but she had her FATHER put it on her, and my dad take it off. I thought that was totally weird. I dont want my dad anywhere NEAR that area of me. lol. Its very interesting how different each wedding is. I find it very romantic. Ahhh I love weddings and such!

[CountryWolf07]

So it means.. that since I caught the bouquet at my boyfriend's cousin's wedding last May and that my boyfriend caught the garter, so that'd mean we're next to marry eventually?

sorry, had to mention in this thread since it's about weddings & receptions!

[Miranda_Rae]

So it means.. that since I caught the bouquet at my boyfriend's cousin's wedding last May and that my boyfriend caught the garter, so that'd mean we're next to marry eventually?

sorry, had to mention in this thread since it's about weddings & receptions!

Yep thats what it means! Although i think its just tradition to think that. I've seen some girls totally fight over the bouquet, which was weird.

[Karen]

Yep thats what it means! Although I think its just tradition to think that. I've seen some girls totally fight over the bouquet, which was weird.

When my sister got married, I was 17. When she was about to toss the bouquet, one of my brother-in-law's friends nudge me and asked, "How old are ya, kid?"

"17 ..." I answered.

"Great, you're too young anyway. If the bouquet is headed toward ya, tip it to me, I need it!"

It went nowhere neither of us, thankfully!

I forgot the whole bouquet-toss thing at my wedding, and so didn't do the garter thing, either, thankfully!

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I agree the garter belt is kind of weird. I've seen the brother of the bride catch it, which seemed strange. Also my sister's ex-boyfriend caught her garter.

At my wedding we gave out chocolate with special wrappers that had our names and wedding date on it.

Just a question- is the only reason you're not having dancing because you and hubby-to-be don't dance? My husband and I don't dance either, but we had a DJ and other people enjoyed dancing. People who don't want to dance enjoy mingling with others and watching the dancers dance. The bride and groom are pretty busy with going around saying "good to see you, thanks for coming" to everyone to do much dancing anyway.

[CountryWolf07]

Yep thats what it means! Although i think its just tradition to think that. I've seen some girls totally fight over the bouquet, which was weird.

That's what I thought. Not a big deal, but it was fun. I do have to say when that bouquet was thrown, it was directly at M-E. I seriously thought, "What to do?!" so I just automatically grabbed it before it hit the ground.

[Miranda_Rae]

Ok heres an update on the wedding ideas etc. For the reception we are going to unwrap our gifts that way the people who gave and came to the wedding can be involved. Also I have completely given up on favors/decorations! My mother is doing that now because shes kinda taken over and I just got too frustrated with that! We got a Caterer picked out and a photographer. Our whole wedding is going to cost under or around $3,000. I think thats pretty good. Anyway, for our honeymoon we are going on a cruise ship to Cozomel, Cayman Islands and Jamaica. Apparently that is my MILs gift to us (even tho thats where we had picked out to go) but Michael and I didnt get to really pick out where when etc. It had made me mad at first because picking out all that with Michael was the thing that i was looking forward to most about the wedding (minus getting married to Michael), but whatever. The only thing I worry about is that they would come along! I really hope that they dont! My mother felt bad because she was all I cant compete with that! I told her not to worry and that shes doing enough help which is more special than gifts! Anyway thats what I have right now!

[Catherinedana]

For favors we had customized M&Ms with our names on them

Barry & Cathy

We made our own music since most of the guests were musical and at one point a bunch of the guys were drumming (on hand drums) and all the women were dancing. It was incredible!

We didn't have alcohol either but we did toast with a yummy non-alcoholic champagne.

Best wishes !!
It will be fabulous whatever you do!

Cathy

[Karen]

It sounds like things are under control, which is a positive, anyway. And hey, at least she's giving you a cruise to somewhere you wanted to go in the first place! Could be worse!

My general advice to brides applies:

"Don't kill anyone's mother. You will want to either shoot your own, or his mother at some point in the process, maybe both, but a murder trial would wreak havoc on both the wedding plans, and then the honeymoon and life ever after - it's just not worth the risk!"